[Evolution-users] Linux-/Windows-filename compatibility

[ampersand_92]

Hi Milan,

On Wednesday, 26 November 2025 at 11:59, Milan Crha via evolution-users <evolution-users at lists.osuosl.org> wrote:
[...]
> > Is anybody aware of a method that lets evolution - when storing an
> > email - automatically substitute every colon by an underscore or a
> > blank space? Or more generally speaking that avoids windows special
> > characters in filenames?
> 
[...]
> try to run from a terminal:
> gsettings get org.gnome.evolution.shell filename-illegal-chars
> then add to it the colon, in between `"` (double quotes), thus
> something like:
> 
> gsettings set org.gnome.evolution.shell filename-illegal-chars "\'\"&\`();|<>\$%{}\!:"
> 
> where I also added escaping to some characters, to make bash happy.
[...]

thank you very. It works perfectly! 
So problem solved.

Cheers, 
hanna